Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Check out Dynatrace’s Load testing tool integration.

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DZone

MARCH 8, 2024

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Encouraging a shift-left approach , testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives. The importance of SRE in improving user experience, system efficiency, scalability , and reliability , and achieving better business outcomes is also discussed.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Software engineers didn’t need to understand the database, and even if they owned it, it was just a single component of the system. Guaranteeing software quality was much easier because the deployment happened rarely, and things could be captured on time via automated tests.

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Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

Introduction to Flaky Tests. Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

Listen to this episode of the Quality Sense Podcast in which Federico Toledo continues his two-part interview with Robert Sabourin , Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at McGill University and President of AmiBug.Com. What’s the Episode About? How can testers adapt to shorter release cycles yet help maintain business continuity?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Talks The Netflix Data Engineering Stack Chris Stephens, Data Engineer, Content & Studio and Pedro Duarte, Software Engineer, Consolidated Logging walk engineers new to Netflix through the building blocks of the Netflix Data Engineering stack.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes. A/B testing also allows us to get a read on the improvement in quality of experience (QoE).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

In order to gain broad software integration of causal effects models, a significant investment in software engineering, especially in computation, is needed. Computational causal inference brings a software implementation focus to causal inference, especially in regards to high performance numerical computing.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These streams use the same production encoding recipes so they are representative of production streams, but have the addition of extreme cases to stress test the decoder. The Client and UI Engineering team built a certification test with these streams to analyze both the device logs as well as the pictures rendered on the screen.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The optimization of performance testing services can contribute to achieving sustainable software engineering. Why is the digital carbon footprint getting bigger every day? What are the best practices to reduce it?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. One of the goals of SRE is to improve uptime.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Application security tests and what they do.

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DZone

JULY 5, 2023

While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. It's the silent force keeping the digital infrastructure wheel rotating smoothly, even during peak usage times.

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Testlodge

MAY 26, 2021

To do this, the team should concentrate on risk-based testing aspects of the project that can reduce the possibility of failure by maintaining quality and stability. With this approach, organizations can quantify and mitigate risks, helping them to prioritize test cases more effectively. Overview of Risk-Based Testing.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A good next step is asking an AI assistant to generate unit tests, either for existing code or some new code (which leads to test-driven development). Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; its easy to see if the generated code is incorrect. They start as a junior developer.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Input The input will contain several test cases (not more than 10). But you can not buy Bytelandian coins. You have one gold coin.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

” Because of their versatility, teams can use IDPs for all types of software engineering projects, not just those in cloud-native scenarios. Test continuously Synthetic testing simulates user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. . “It makes them more productive.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Testing your digital platforms as part of a digital experience program is a vital element of ensuring that your customers have a seamless and user-friendly experience as they interact with your digital platforms. Of course, as with any other aspect of the testing process, some challenges can arise, but this is to be expected.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Organizations can then integrate these skilled engineers at key points in the DevOps life cycle.

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DZone

JANUARY 30, 2020

These problems show up where there may be a lack of familiarity with automated testing by leadership. Also, I am referring to end-to-end automated tests here rather than unit testing. You may also like: Getting Started With Automated Testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services. Dynatrace developed and released Keptn to open source in 2020.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

According to a performance test conducted by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, the process traced using strace ran 173 times slower, which is disastrous for a production environment. However, if you're running a trace in a production environment, strace is NOT a good choice.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel. Those tests get executed from two locations (Paris and London) hosted by different cloud vendors (Azure & AWS).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

DevOps automation eliminates extraneous manual processes, enabling DevOps teams to develop, test, deliver, deploy, and execute other key processes at scale. It includes questions relating to vulnerability prioritization, attack detection and response, application testing, and other central aspects of security.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. Using Dynatrace Workflows , users can execute a variety of different tests after the successful deployment of new releases.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Free Trial: Does the paid product offer a free trial so users can test before committing? The ability to generate synthetic data for system testing. Paid: Is the tool free, open-source, or does it require a license or subscription? Evaluate if the cost is justified by the features offered. Metadata search among rows of database tables.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. Software Architecture. The new category is often called MLOps.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to a survey conducted on software test automation , 51% of organisations prefer to retrain existing staff in test automation skills. While there are still 49% that would like to hire them specially for test automation related tasks. And, 14% said they’d like to have no manual testing at all.”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2024

In the world of software engineering, where complex systems are the norm, ensuring reliability and resilience is paramount. However, traditional testing methods often fall short of uncovering hidden vulnerabilities and edge cases that could lead to system failures.

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Kovair

JANUARY 24, 2022

Views: 36 Software Engineering Software engineering is a phenomenon in and of itself, but before you can truly comprehend how it works altogether, you must.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important?

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